Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:36:33 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Could you disable both bandaids? I disabled them, no problems so far.
> > Now back to the disable_irq_nosync().
>
> Ok so it looks like the disable_irq code is buggy. Unfortunately its not
> just used for these drivers they are just the heaviest users.

It may well not be disable_irq() that is buggy. In fact, there's good
reason to believe that it's a hardware problem.

Linus

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